Wesfarmers Limited is a publicly listed company owned by more than 480,000 shareholders as of recent reports. It is not owned by a single person or entity but by numerous individual and institutional shareholders who hold its shares traded on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) under the ticker "WES".

Founded as a cooperative in 1914, it transitioned to a public company listed on the ASX in 1984, and its ownership is distributed among these shareholders rather than concentrated in a single owner or a small group. Some of the major shareholders include institutional investors, but the ownership is broadly held.